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Books in the Global Health Histories series

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  • - Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
    by New York) Seth & Suman (Cornell University
    £27.99 - 33.99

    Suman Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual construction of medicine, race, and empire in the eighteenth century. Readers will find medical writers engaging with abolitionism and the care of the enslaved, and will be able to track the ways that medicine created modern notions of racial difference.

  • - A History
    by Marcos Cueto, Elizabeth Fee, New York) Brown & et al.
    £29.49 - 78.99

    A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.

  • - Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic
    by Lukas (University of Edinburgh) Engelmann
    £29.99

    This new and unique visual history of AIDS focuses on the AIDS atlas, published by dedicated clinicians between 1986 and 2008. The epidemic's history is retold through clinical photographs, epidemiological maps and icons of HIV asking how this devastating epidemic has come to be seen as a controllable chronic condition.

  • - Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
    by Dora (University of Exeter) Vargha
    £29.99 - 77.99

    Hungary was one of the first countries to introduce a national oral vaccination campaign against polio, built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West. Dora Vargha uses a series of polio epidemics in communist Hungary to understand the response to a global public health emergency in the midst of the Cold War. This title is also available as Open Access.

  • by Kalle (University of Oulu Kananoja
    £22.99 - 74.49

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